Where's everyone from?

**PlantSwap** · #16 01-16-2007, 12:49 PM

Hi Kathy, welcome to the forum.

rosequeen · #17 01-28-2007, 09:59 AM

Rosequeen from Southern Ga.

So nice to meet you all, hope to have trades or exchanges.

Vicki in West MI · #18 01-28-2007, 12:45 PM

Hi All,
Sorry been absent for a few weeks, been busy. Anyhoo's I'm from MI, West Mi near Muskegon, stones throw from big beautiful Lake Michigan.

txbeyer · #19 01-28-2007, 02:26 PM

If everyone participating in this Forum would list their location in their profiles, that would help us all in discussing gardening things among ourselves. The more specific the better, e.g city, state, Winter hardiness zone. All it takes is a quick editing to do that. I know I check this before answering anyones post because gardening is very different according to one's location.

slewfoot · #20 03-23-2007, 11:37 AM

Hi guys and gals,

We move a lot, and live in Church owned houses. . . so well I like to garden, it is difficult to make the investment sometimes, not knowing if we will be moved by harvest.

I am playing with my first vegetable garden, lots of variety. The kids are helping; we homeschool. . . I'm trying to find a balance for the compost here. I don't find we have so many grass clippings. This is Laredo. Also, we ordered some worms for a vermipost. I hope they don't want to move elsewhere like almost everyone else here.

I am hoping to learn from/with ya'll. I don't see anyone doing their own gardens around here.

Have a great day!

**PlantSwap** · #21 03-25-2007, 01:03 PM

Hi slewfoot, welcome to the forum.

rose1020 · #22 04-01-2007, 09:13 PM

Hi
I am also new, posted this morning, but to let everyone know where I live. Texarkana, TX which is on the border of TX and AR...(zone 7) ..I also see there are several other gardners close to this area. I moved here from Dallas, TX, and before that Tyler, TX......I am finding that most eveything that I grew there grows here. Some do not drow as great as they did in Tyler, but have found that if the plant did not survive the winter I have ten thousand flower seed in the bed now.
So I am sitting here wondering if I just let a lot of them mature, or am I going to be ruthless and replant.
Lost the Lantana, and landscape grasses that should have lived, and kept some tender annuals that should have died it the first frost....The pentunias I am talking about that made it through this past winter are 18 in high or taller and blooming there heads off......these have to be an old type of petunia, because the seed had to have lay dormet for years before I put the bed in (I have never been one to have luck with petunias) so I did not plant them.
I also find that we have more birds here and they plant very interesting things also, I had some kind of shrub that was coming up, but dug them up, did not want to take a chance on them being a wild shurb. Now I wish I had put one in a pot to see. I have never had birds that planted new plants for me. LOL....but this area is so peaceful and we are in city limits but saw two young deer down the street one morning last week, plus we enjoy a lot of wildlife that I have never had living in the other towns. So it is nice to be here, even if I did have to leave all my plants behind when I moved.
Have great days gardening, my friends, and all that live in this area, maybe we could do some plant swaping.
Rose1020

**PlantSwap** · #23 04-02-2007, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by rose1020

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I have never had birds that planted new plants for me.

Oh my. Birds love my house. I'm constantly cleaning up my beds from their gifts - especially Chinese Tallow tree sprouts.

kancheta · #24 04-02-2007, 11:31 AM

Hi, I am live in Copperas Cove, Tx and just bought my first house so I am having a blast figuring out what is sprouting up here and there. We have only been here for 2 months and I found 3 or 4 mimosas sprouting out of the hedges and a rose bush hidden in there, lol. I am waiting on a few sunny days so I can thin the jungle and try to salvage some of it and move them if I can. I am hoping for some trades also.

rose1020 · #25 04-03-2007, 12:38 AM

Hi
Welcome, I do not know where Copperas Cove is, but I live in Texarkana, and I am finding gardening here to be fun.
As for the mimosas, they used to be a "weed tree" in Texas for years. They would pop up in every bed you had, then something happened to them....that killed them off.....I am beginning to see them here again for the first time last year. I had one back when everyone laughed at my weed tree but I liked it.....kind of wish one would sprout in my bed LOL.
As for roses, I could never grow them even when I lived in Tyler, Tx where they grow lots of them there. Used to be the rose capital of the world. But I planted e in my beds last fall, and I have poor soil, lots of red clay. I mixed it with compost from the water dept. (here we are lucky and get compost from the water dept. by the truck load or in bags cheap. They are doing so well, I plan on putting in a rose bed. The neighbors have some that they do not baby in any way and they grow like weeds there.
So happy gardening, and I am hoping to do some trades as I grow more plants.....right now I have spider lillies if you want, looking for any bulb plant, not picky because I am just starting.
Rose

txbeyer · #26 04-03-2007, 10:00 AM

Talking about bird contributions, I found a beautiful little plant growing in the middle of my lawn that was loaded with yellow daisy like flowers. I transplanted it into a native plant bed, did some research and found out that the birds gave me a 'Four Nerve Daisy", not the one commonly sold as a perennial in nurseries here in Austin but a different wild species. So, all bird gifts are not bad! That thing just keeps blooming like crazy.

kancheta · #27 04-03-2007, 11:13 AM

It is in Central Texas. The trees started leafing out and they were not mimosa after all. They were right up against the foundation and I couldn't figure out how to post the pictures yesterday to identify them so when I got up this morning to take one with my cell phone (for some reason I can post those) the trees were gone. I called my husband and he said he had someone cut them down that was working in the neighbors yard. Whatever they were, they grew about 5 feet in 2 months! I would love some spider lilies. My bulbs are still in pots and I have to wait til I get my bed made to put them into before I can divide. I'll let you know when I get it done. Glad your roses are happy.